This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
The collection is clearly divided into two record groups: Price Waterhouse & Co. archival materials and Coopers & Lybrand archival materials. The documents from the offices Price Waterhouse & Co. materials include original company documents, accounting books, and other records created by Price Waterhouse or the firms that have subsequently merged with it. The group further contains papers of George O. May (led the company from 1911 to 1926), files from the office of Herman W. Bevis (led the company from 1961 to 1969), company publications and library of book related to accounting. This group also includes the files of historical research conducted by Winthrop Group for Centennial of Price Waterhouse in America (1990), oral history tapes and transcripts, videos and digital materials.
Coopers and Lybrand materials include original company documents, accounting books, and other records created by Lybrand, Ross Brothers & Montgomery, Coopers Brothers and other firms that have subsequently merged to form Coopers and Lybrand. A large collection of printed materials contains first editions, manuals, broshures and periodicals. Also included are files and audio recordings of James Mahon (LRB&M National Director of Practice Development), and files from the office of Catherine "Millie" McGovern, C&L manager and event coordinator. Numerous audiovisual materials include photos, video documentaries and oral history records. This record group also includes historical research conducted by the Business History Group for CL centennial (1998).
In two sequences: Coopers & Lybrand records and Price Waterhouse records. Coopers & Lybrand is in 9 series. Price Waterhouse is in 7 series.
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); PricewaterhouseCoopers records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals are expected
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
The documents from the offices Price Waterhouse & Co. have been collected by Price Waterhouse Library and Information Center, with additions from May family, files from the office of H. W. Bevis and historical research files from Winthrop Group. Coopers and Lybrand materials include records created by Lybrand, Ross Brothers & Montgomery, Coopers Brothers and other firms that have subsequently merged to form Coopers & Lybrand. James Mahon files were donated to Coopers & Lybrand by Mahon family. Audiovisual materials and large collection of first editions and periodicals was collected by the C&L librarian and then preserved by Catherine "Millie" McGovern, C&L manager and event coordinator. Historical research files for CL centennial (1998) were created by The Business History Group.
The PWC Archive was: Source of acquisition--PriceWaterhouseCoopers in. Method of acquisition--donated to Columbia University by; Date of acquisition--August 2000.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed by Jane Gorjevsky, Aug. 2001 - Aug. 2002.
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
PricewaterhouseCoopers , one of the world's top accountancy firms, has been created in 1998 by the merger of two companies - Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand - each with historical roots going back some 150 years to the 19th century Great Britain. The collection of PWC archival materials, donated to Columbia University in 2000, traces the rise of both companies to major worldwide professional services powerhouses through mergers and business expansion.
In the 1890s both companies established their presence in the United States. The American accounting as a profession was then a new undertaking with limited experience, little or no organized training facilities and practically no authoritative means of establishing and enforcing professional standards. Early founders of both firms were deeply involved in professional organizations of the time and instrumental in establishing the standards and terminology of the nascent accounting profession. By maintaining a firm stand on matters of professional ethics, and by relying on British practice and precedent, these accountants played an important role in developing American auditing standards. Influenced by market environment, legislative decisions and technological advances, Price Waterhouse & Co. and Coopers & Lybrand were, to a large extent, developing along similar lines.
Price Waterhouse & Co.: In 1850 Samuel Lowell Price sets up his accounting business in London. In 1865 he was joined in partnership by William H. Holyland and an Edwin Waterhouse and by 1874 the company name changes to Price, Waterhouse & Co. In 1873, the firm conducted their first US project. The growing US practice lead to the establishment of permanent PW presence in the Western hemispere, which began with the opening of the office on 45 Broadway, New York City in 1890 by a company agent Lewis D. Jones. He was soon joined in America by William J. Caesar, who opened an office in Chicago. In 1895 the newly created Jones, Caesar & Co. was designated as an agent of Price Waterhouse. After Jones early death Arthur L. Dickinson replaced retiring Caesar as a senior partner of the American firm.
The firm enjoyed solid reputation and high business volume. By the turn of the century, it built up a roster of clients which covered a wide range of industrial and commercial fields in most sections of the country. Branch offices began to open throughout the USA and then in other parts of the world: 1907 Joseph E. Sterett, an American with his own successful practice, joins the company and the American firm's name changed from Jones, Caesar, Dickinson, Wilmot & Co. to Dickinson, Wilmot & Sterret. By Dickinson's retirement as a senior partner in 1911 the firm grows large enough to need the committee structure. In 1913 the name of American firm is dropped in favor of the English name Price Waterhouse & Co.
The 100 years of Price Waterhouse history in America divide into three periods, each characterized by its own problems and dilemmas (McDermott and Allen, p. 248). The first era (1890s to late 1920s) saw the Americanization of the practice and the rise of the firm around professionally automonous partners. The second era, from the early 1930s to the late 1960s marked the dominance of PW in the regulated monolithic environment in which the accounting profession then functioned. The securities laws of the early 1930s pushed the audit to the center of firms' practice. During the 'golden age' of 1950s the flow of capital to Europe led PW to establish the international firm. The same time period witnessed the start of series of mergers at home. The third era, 1970 to 1990s, saw the reformulation of the agenda in a period of radical change in both marketplace and the profession. 1982 Price Waterhouse World Firm formed. The steady absorption of the more successful local and regional practices in the Big Eight (later Big Six) accelerated. Innovations in technology resulted in changes to traditional work pattern. Shifting client base, wave of litigations, changes in service mix and additional standards, established by SEC and Congress, led to increase in overhead costs. All these factors eroded industry structure established in 1930s. Greater competitiveness led to dismantling of earlier professional prohibitions against advertizing. Price competition in audit wars, and industry mergers led Price Waterhouse, which always focues on auditing, to start admitting non-CPA's and expand management consulting services.
Coopers & Lybrand: In 1854 William Cooper establishes his own practice in London, which seven years later becomes Cooper Brothers. Firm's history in the United States begins in 1898, when Robert H. Montgomery, William M. Lybrand, Adam A. Ross Jr. and his brother T. Edward Ross form Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery in Philadelphia. During the early 20th century, their offices spread around the country and then in Europe. The explosive growth ended with Great Depression that forced the firm to reorganize organizational structure, and to shift the focus from expansion toward flexible specialization, such as finding new types of services (tax services, management consulting) for exhisting clientele. In the 1930s LRB&M was enegaged by the federal government to investigate several banks and trust ocmpanies throughout the United States - the work of unprecedented magnitude, ranging from an investigation to a detailed audit followed by liquidation proceedings.
After the death of Col. Montgomery in 1953, the new generation of leaders came to the fore: Alvin R. Jennings, Walter A. Staub, Philip L. Defliese, Norman E. Auerbach. Under their leadership, the firm experienced a major transformation from medium-size company, focused on auditing and primarliy national in scope, into a multinational player with a growing mix of consulting services. The boldest step was a 1957 merger between Cooper Brothers & Co (UK), McDonald, Currie and Co (Canada) and Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery (US), forming Coopers & Lybrand - a truly international powerhouse, operating through 79 offices in 19 countries. 1950s also saw the addition of an autonomous line of specialization in mamagement consulting services. The company acquired more formal oragnizational structure, and continued a policy of selective mergers, including an important addition of Scovell, Vellington & Co. in 1962. In 1973 American firm adopts the name Coopers and Lybrand. Globalization and information boom led to increased interest in Knowledge Management, adding it to the existing mix of professional services. In 1990 Coopers & Lybrand merges with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in a number of countries around the world In 1998 Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merge worldwide to become PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Contains early documents on the Firm's history (singly and in scrapbooks), early bookkeeping.
Bound Volumes of formal bookkeeping records with handwritten entries
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[Oversized]
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Box 4 Folder 5
Box 4 Folder 6
Arranged Chronologically
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[Mounted]
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[Mounted]
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[Vol. 2 needs repair]
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Scrapbooks contain announcements such as: company services, new offices and partners, address and staff changes, mergers, anniversary selebration, death notices. Most documents are off the original pages, due to the aging of the glue. Glue and scotch tape traces on most documents. Cards mostly have a second copy on file (count represents number of distinct items)
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Bound volumes contain original correspondence and typed papers
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[2 copies]
Box 5 Folder 13
[2 copies, bound]
Box 6 Folder 1
[bound]
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[bound]
Box 6 Folder 3
[bound]
Box 6 Folder 4
[bound]
C&L 100th Anniversary Celebration (1998) and book (Building Values and Traditions: 100 Years of Coopers & Lybrand) project. Research work conducted by Business History Group, Inc.
General information and celebration guidelines
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Conducted by Business History Group. Originals photos moved to Photographs series, replaced by xerox copies.
Box 7 Folder 1
[Photos removed from: Crosby, Ralph]
Box 7 Folder 2
[Photos removed from: Stewart, Wellington; Original documents on merger with CL in Wellington]
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Images for centennial book Building Values and Traditions: 100 Years of Coopers & Lybrand (1998)
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Box 8 Folder 3
[Same as in photos folder]
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Manuals, guides, and other internal communications, such as policy statements, memos, circulars, bulletins.
Arranged chronologically. Loose-leaf binders removed. Mostly typed documents, some later manuals are printed.
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Box 8 Folder 8
[Make copy]
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[Scovell, Wellington & Co. merged with RLB&M]
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[Vol. I missing]
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Bulletins, Memoranda, Circulars, arranged by title. Typed Documents
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[Boxes continue from Firms]
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Materials pertaining to specific companies as LRB&M and C&L clients or merger partners. Series arranged alphabetically by company name
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[Remove photos]
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Papers from the office of James J. Mahon, who joined the Firm's Philadelphia Office in 1941, becoming a tax partner in 1948. He moved to the Executive Office in New York in 1959 to head their International Service. During the 1960s James Mahon served as National Director of Practice Development, supervising Lybrand's public relations and promotion functions. He also served on the Firm's Executive Committee. Audio Records from Mahon files are stored separately (see Audio series)
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Files created by Catherine M. (Millie) McGovern, C&L event coordinator and administrative supervisor (??)
Biographical files, procedures, nomination and voting records for 1994 and 1996 Awards
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Records of the Club for C&L Employees with 25 or more years of service
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Photos and videos separated
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Events planning and administration, miscellaneous administrative issues.
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Program, started in 1981, sponsored by NYC Partnership. CL was the lead company for 1986 campaign
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[Metlife was the lead company for SJ'85]
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Contains multiple editions of broshures and pamphlets, in alphavetical order by title or topic.
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Alphabetically by title, date span 1960s - 1997
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Box 21 Folder 3 - 11
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Includes two copies of LRB&M Journal: (bound and unbound); two unbound runs of C&L Newsletter, Coopers Bros. Journal and partial runs of regional or departmental periodicals arranged alphabetically by title
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Box 26 Folder 1 - 10
[Missing: most of Vol. 1-2 (1959-60). Continued as C&L Newsletter]
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[Continued as Our Firm]
External Printed matter containing materials related to C&L or articles about C&L
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All transparencies are done in color, although some of them depict early b&w photographs
Illustrations identified by number. For image description see photolist
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[Book cover - 4 images, 2 copies each]
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Flat Box 347 Folder 9 - 13
[Currently removed for conservation treatment]
Mapcase 14-F-10 Folder 1 - 3
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[see also slides and Flat Box 1, Folder 2]
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Negatives circa 1960s - 1970s, mostly undated. Collection contains some slide shows in both 35 mm and 4 x 5 formats.
Events, and workshops, partners and employees, slide shows (statistical and computer training).
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Slide shows for training courses: EDP (electronic data processing), auditing and taxation, workflow. 20 slides per negative. Some duplicates in separate folder
Box 30 Folder 68 - 81
prints and some negatives of various C&L events, 1960s-1970s
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[curled]
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[curled]
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[Minor water damage, curling and yellowing]
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[water damage]
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[47 additional 8x10 color prints have been removed due to major water damage and mold]
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[Many prints curled due to water damage. 17 additional 8x10 color prints (#15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 32-37, 39, 49, 54, 55, 83) have been removed due to major water damage and mold]
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[Minor water damage on some prints. One additional 8x10 color prints have been removed due to major water damage and mold]
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[One of the prints replaced by photocopy. Original filed as Pht-076 (used for centennial). Memos enclosed.]
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[Photos glued to 8x10 cardboards and laminated.]
color prints and negatives of various C&L events, 1980s - 1990s
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[2 identical prints]
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developed rolls: color prints and negatives
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LP records from the collection of James Mahon (5 unique, 10 total)
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Box 35
[Enclosed: note to J. Mahon from Joan Tanchalk, Mar. 31 1983]
Box 35
[Note on box: Aug. 1972 Set.]
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Box 35
For C&L Centennial. Interviews conducted by Business History Group
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LRB&M Cash Books on Microfilm
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Some images used for C&L Centennial Book Illustrations (see Photo Illustrations list)
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Box 36
Backed up on 3'5 diskette on Jul. 31, 2002. 3 diskettes total
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Backed up on 2 3'5 diskettes on Jul. 31, 2002. 9 diskettes total.
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[backed up by JG, Mar. 21, 2002]
Box 36 Folder 33
[backed up by JG, Mar. 21, 2002]
Box 36 Folder 34
[All Pierce Comm. Files backed up on one diskette by JG, Mar. 21, 2002]
Box 36 Folder 35
[All Pierce Comm. Files backed up on one diskette by JG, Mar. 21, 2002]
In cases of multiple copies one mastercopy was re-housed, the rest retained as reference copies (up to 2 reference copies kept at the end of series in boxes 41 and 42). The box information in this finding aid denotes the location of the preservation item unless specified otherwise.
C&L Documentary Project. Reference copies in boxes 41-42
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 41]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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Arranged alphabetically by title, numbers before letters
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copy in box 42; Film original in Flat Box 348; ]
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[With visual time code]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Master 1]
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[Tapes 11, 12]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Super 8 mm film transferred to VHS tape Aug. 4, 1997]
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[Super 8 mm film (400 ft) transferred to VHS tape Aug. 4, 1997. ]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Enclosed Memo separated.]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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Alphabetical by name
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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[Speeches begin at 56:10]
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[Reference Copies in box 42]
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Portraits, plaques, commemorative buttons, items bearing company logos etc.
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[Staub's autoghaph on portrait]
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Flat Box 348
Series consists of books and monographs from the C&L library, printed by or relating to RBML and C&L
Box 42
[vols 1, 3 need repair]
Box 42
[need repair]
Box 42
[needs repair]
Box 42
[needs repair]
Box 43
Box 43
Box 43
[Signed by H. F. Bell]
Box 43
Box 43
[Inscribed by Montgomery to Wm M. Lybrand, Nov. 18, 1940. Needs repair]
Box 43
Box 43
[Continuation of Auditing Theory and Practice]
Box 43
[Inscribed by Defliese to Firm Library, Dec, 1975]
Box 43
[Signed by authors]
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[Signed by authors]
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[Signed by authors]
Box 43
[Signed by authors]
Box 43
[Signed by authors]
Box 44
[Inscribed by Montgomery to Walter Staub, Jan. 11, 1917]
Box 42
[needs repair]
Box 42
[Office Copy, signed by Montgomery]
Box 44
Box 44
[Inscribed by Montgomery to Wm M. Lybrand, Feb. 9, 1920]
Box 44
[Inscribed by Montgomery to Wm M. Lybrand, Feb. 7, 1921]
Box 44
[Inscribed by Montgomery to sister [Lenore] Montgomery Lybrand, Mar. 31, 1922]
Box 44
[Inscribed by Montgomery to Wm M. Lybrand, Dec. 29, 1922]
Box 44
Box 44
[Montgomery's personal copy]
Box 44
[Volume 2 (Excess Profits, Estate, Gift, Capital Stock Tax Procedure) not found]
Box 44
[Signed by H. F. Bell (Vol. I)]
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[Signed by Staub.]
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Box 45
[Vol. 2 in box 46]
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[Vol. 1 in box 45]
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[Signed by Walter Staub]
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Box 47
[Signed by C. B. Taylor]
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Box 47
[Inscribed by Montgomery to Wm M. Lybrand, Mar. 21, 1921]
Box 47
[One copy inscribed by Montgomery to John C. [Porter], Dec. 25, 1939]
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Box 48
[Inscribed by Staub to Robert H. Montgomery]
Box 48
[One copy stamped by Montgomery, signed by Walter Gee]
Box 48
[Signed by Wm. M. Lybrand, March 1892]
Box 48
[ Signed by author]
Box 48
Box 48
[Continuation of Retail Merchandize Accounting by Bell]
Box 48
[Continuation of Retail Merchandize Accounting by Bell]
Box 48
[Inscribed by author to Audrey Rikes, Dec. 29, 1959]
Box 48
[Inscribed by author to Alvin R. Jennings]
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[Signed by authors]
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[One copy signed by authors]
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Box 49
[One copy inscribed by Pomeranz and Cancellieri to C&L, Mar. 22, 1977]
Box 49
[Inscribed by Paul Bacas to Col. Montgomery, Oct. 18, 1937]
Box 49
[Inscribed by [Henry Burson] on behalf of the many outors of this work, Jul. 1966]
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[Signed by author - author's copy]
Box 49
[Both copies inscribed by author, May 1959. first to Norman Auerbach; second to William Lybrand]
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[Inscibed by T. Rua to Kirk Batzer, Nov. 1961]
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Box 50
[One copy signed by Johnson]
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[Signed by J. Crestol]
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[Inscribed by Pomeranz to Firm's Librarians]
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[Signed by authors]
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[Signed by Steinberg and Murray]
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[Inscribed by P. Taylor to Jim Mahon, Jul 1964]
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[REIT - Real Estate Invesment Trust]
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[In dutch]
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[In Japanese and English]
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Contains early documents on the Firm's history (singly and in scrapbooks), early bookkeeping.
Journals and ledgers with handwritten bookkeeping records.
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[fragile]
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[fragile]
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[fragile]
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[fragile]
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[fragile]
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[fragile]
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[original and copy]
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[Mounted and framed]
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[Mounted]
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In 1897, George O. May, hired by the Price Waterhouse London Office several months earlier, begins his work in New York. By 1911 London office selects George O. May to succeed retiring senior partner Arthur Dickinson. During the First World War May served as a member of the Secretary of the Treasury's staff in 1917-18. Concurrently, he offered a subscription in Price Waterhouse name for the $25,000 to establish AIA library. G. O. May served on the AIA Committee on Federal legislation (first example of cooperation between the government and the profession to promulgate accounting principles), together with Robert H. Montgomery. In 1926 May assumed the role of economist-accountant-philosopher for the profession, and William B. Campbell succeeded him as a senior partner. G. O. May often represented accounting to the world and helped to shape the regulatory reforms of the 1930s and to promote generally accepted accounting principles.
Original arrangement from the PW record center retained: alphabetical by subject then chronologically. Mostly bound in blue books by Price Waterhouse information center, with some loose materials added. Database, partially cataloging the correspondence, can be found in Centennial Research series ( box 82, folders 13-15, box 83 folder 1) in hard copy. The digital copy of the same file is stored in as ascii text file on 3.5 floppy disk (box 96, Digital Materials). Originally, the database was created using Inmagic Db/Textworks software. All folders include letters, papers and memoranda by G. O. May. Other correspondents' names in this series were taken from the corresponding records of the Inmagic database.
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[AICPA is a successor of AIA]
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Incoming and outgoing business correspondence, filed in reverse chronological order.
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1919 - 1920
Box 72 Folder 20
1921 - 1922
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1923
Box 72 Folder 22
1924
Box 72 Folder 23
1925 - 1926
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1927
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1928
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1929
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1930 - 1949
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1950 - 1953
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1954 - 1956
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1957
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1958
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1959
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1960
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1961
Accounting history and biographical material, largely uncompleted. - Typescripts with handwritten notes. Arranged Chronologically. Each draft is preceded by a top card handwritten by researcher with suggested subject headings.
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Alphabetical by subject
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Herman W. Bevis lead Price Waterhouse &Co. in 1961 -1969 as a senior partner and the Executive Committee chairman, commited to the visible role in professional affairs. Bevis spent his entire career in New York office, admitted to partnership in 1946.
Includes memoranda and speeches attached and relating to the correspondence
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[Arranged alphabetically by author]
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[Herman Bevis was BASIC executive director]
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Conducted by Withrop group in 1988-1990 for book Accounting for Success.
Photocopies of selected correspondence with manuscript notes by researcher. In loose chronological order
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Transcripts - Printouts with handwritten corrections and associated correspondence with interviewees
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[Executive Letters (1961 -1989) communicated confidential information to partners and managers. Replaced interoffice weekly letters that were exchanged among all offices of the firm prior to Apr. 1961. After that date, each office reported such information twice a month to the New York office for consolidation in Executive Letter. Subject index (green sheets) included with each volume.]
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[Includes reference to all material issued to date included in files of National Office Information Center]
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[Note on micro tape 2-William Miller at 24]
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[See also microtape of Cummins, Alphonsus T.]
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Records of meetings related to centennial project
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Videos on VHS tapes
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Most files are interview transcripts (with hard copies on file in Oral History Transcripts subseries of Paper files), but a few only have audio records. Files originally on 5.25'' diskettes. Migrated to CD (in original WordPerfect format). CD stored in box 91, and to 3.5 diskettes (ascii text files), stored in box 96.
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[In German]
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[In 1906 Arthur Andersen joins the Chicago office of Price Waterhouse and Co., but soon leaves, dissatisfied by the slow pace of advancement. In 1913 he starts his own company, which ultimately became a large competitor firm. ]
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